Sages

Aurora · Post by **Aurora** » Tue Jan 19, 2010 2:28 pm

It made my head hurt..

General Maximus · Post by **General Maximus** » Tue Jan 19, 2010 8:33 pm

I had to laugh at my post. It truely made no sense

Esmerelda · Post by **Esmerelda** » Tue Jan 19, 2010 9:08 pm

Don't worry. We're used to it...

Adam · Post by **Adam** » Tue Jan 19, 2010 11:29 pm

Combat sage here...

(not that I really care but if given a choice...)

1 vote for Critical Strike .

Woden · Post by **Woden** » Wed Jan 20, 2010 9:55 pm

Its no secret Ive never liked having waylay in the Sage path to begin with. I like the crit strike even less.
Over the years we've argued and gone round and round about what a Path or Discipline mean. Simply put (in my opinion) ..
Warrior = Combat
Rogue = Sneaky
Empath = Boom
Healer = Healing
Sage = Knowledge

If you want to blur the lines then you combine Paths.
Simple. (or it should be)
Not every Path needs a combat ability.

cole45 · Post by **cole45** » Thu Jan 21, 2010 8:27 am

we are not talking about maing sage combative, just balaning it's skills against the already existing skills. (they are much lower and higher time than even racial boons.)

dier_cire · Post by **dier_cire** » Thu Jan 21, 2010 9:23 am

cole45 wrote:we are not talking about maing sage combative, just balaning it's skills against the already existing skills. (they are much lower and higher time than even racial boons.)

Actually, we aren't even talking about that. We are, in fact, only talking about which skill people would prefer: Waylay or Crit Strike. This is _not_ about balancing or making Sage better in any way.

Atrum Draconus · Post by **Atrum Draconus** » Thu Jan 21, 2010 11:50 am

Todd how do you show the sages knowledge of combat or being sneaky? I like the waylay for the simple fact that it shows the sages versatility because of their study and knowledge. I do completely agree that the sage should have something besides their discipline skill that is usable at an event as a brand new character and that the charge time should be inline with rogue.

Ark · Post by **Ark** » Fri Jan 22, 2010 11:38 am

so keep both waylay and the little crit strike, make one of them a basic skill, bam two birds one stone

GM-Phil · Post by **GM-Phil** » Tue Jan 26, 2010 8:18 am

I agree with Ark..

Move Waylay to Basic, make it the fourth skill to buy.. and Place the Crit Strike ability where Waylay is now.. gives a bit better balance to Sage in my opinion.

celegar · Post by **celegar** » Tue Jan 26, 2010 1:46 pm

wait a tick.....exactly how is sage unballenced?

Esmerelda · Post by **Esmerelda** » Tue Jan 26, 2010 2:52 pm

The arguement has been made (Not by me, I'm just stating what I've heard) the Sage is unbalanced because they only have 3 basic path skills while all the others have 4. And of the 3, 2 of them are used between events. So as a 0 lvl starting sage all you can do in game at your first event is read/write. Which I will say kind does suck your first event. But overall I thin Sage is a rockin' Path. I'm always surprised that we don't have more of them in the game.

celegar · Post by **celegar** » Tue Jan 26, 2010 3:08 pm

hmmm, so just a reshuffling? or giving them one more skill at the basic level?

cole45 · Post by **cole45** » Tue Jan 26, 2010 4:21 pm

also, the skills they do have have higher times and lower numbers than other paths. (which would make sense maybe if they got MORE skills.)

Atrum Draconus · Post by **Atrum Draconus** » Wed Jan 27, 2010 1:25 pm

Not really, a jack of all trades is never as good as the person that applies more time to their craft.